Friday, November 19, 1999Siblings reunited after 8 decades apart
Cincinnati woman meets brother, 101
The Associated Press and The Cincinnati EnquirerSara Pyatigorsky of Blue Ash was a small child when her older brother fled Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution, fearing prosecution for being Jewish.
And even though it has been 80 years since the last time she saw her brother, Benjamin Feinstein, she headed right to him when she arrived in Ottawa, Canada, Thursday.
Mrs. Pyatigorsky, 87, and her 101-year-old brother hugged, kissed and wept in his small apartment, the Canadian Press news agency reported. “God has been good to me,” said Mr. Feinstein as he broke into song.
“I talked to her last night and she said everything is fine,” said Mrs. Pyatigorsky's son, Alex, of Blue Ash. “She is very happy.”
Alex Pyatigorsky, 60, said his mother would often talk about her brother even though she was very young when he left.
“She talked about him often,” he said. “She told us the whole story.” Mr. Feinstein left his family in Russia in 1919, going to Romania and then Canada, where he started a family that grew to a dozen grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Over the years, he sent clothes and money back to the Soviet Union and maintained irregular communication with a brother, who visited him before dying several years ago.
Two of his children visited Mrs. Pyatigorsky after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the family lost touch when she moved as a refugee from Kiev to Cincinnati in 1994.
But now, “We talk to them very often,” Mr. Pyatigorsky said.
Only when Mr. Feinstein said last week that he wanted to see the last of his siblings was the reunion set up.
“All her life she dreamed to see her brother,” said Ms. Pyatigorsky's daughter, Inna, who accompanied her. “All she had was a small, small picture.”
Mrs. Pyatigorsky and her daughter are expected to return Nov. 23.
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